1812: Fatherhood With Ben Greenfield
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
1812: Fatherhood With Ben Greenfield
- Has he noticed any parallels in his sons' personalities or interests to his own? (2:21)
- Having those interesting, yet important, discussions with your teenage children. (6:17)
- The challenges of unschooling. (8:54)
- Building non-privileged children through the Greenfield Family Playbook. (27:29)
- Going through the rite of passage from boyhood to manhood. (35:45)
- Why Ben and his wife preach conscious-based parenting. (39:42)
- How has he addressed pornography with his children? (43:27)
- Navigating and being the example of being a good man/father. (48:27)
- Why Ben is writing a parenting book. (53:00)
- The impact breathwork has been on his children. (57:08)
- The important habits/practices he has built into his son's daily lives. (58:37)
- What worries him about future technologies? (1:03:34)
- Choose happiness and love. (1:10:49)
- Does he find his passion for fatherhood growing? (1:16:06)
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump. All right, special guests today. |
| 0:20.0 | Ben Greenfield, good friend of ours. We've had him on the show a few times. |
| 0:23.0 | We love the guy. One of the smartest people we know in the health and fitness space. |
| 0:28.0 | Also kind of weird, but also kind of cool. Really, really nice guy. |
| 0:31.0 | Today's episode, we talk about fatherhood. I mean, he's got two kids. |
| 0:35.0 | He takes it very seriously. He has unique approaches to fatherhood. |
| 0:40.0 | And we think that there's a lot of golden nuggets in this conversation. |
| 0:43.0 | This is actually some stuff that I learned that I think I'll implement with my family. |
| 0:46.0 | So we know you're going to love this episode. |
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